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New Holland honeyeater        Images © Mark A. Chappell

A great variety of honeyeaters (about 60 species) are found throughout Australia.   This one is the New Holland honeyeater, one of the 'yellow-winged' honeyeater group.   New Hollands are common and very noisy birds of forest, heathlands, and brushland in eastern Australia.   They are noisy, fast-moving, curious and rather aggressive, with a somewhat psychotic expression due to their pale eyes and white feather tufts on the head.   These were feeding in flowering shrubs in Wollongong, on the coast of New South Wales, and in southwestern Western Australia.

  • Canon 1D3 or 7D2; 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X extender or 800 mm IS lens plus 1.4X extender, fill-in flash (2009, 2016)